page_title: List of people from Massachusetts
section_title: Science, engineering, and medicine
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Massachusetts / Science, engineering, and medicine
caption_attribution_description: English: "Eli Whitney," portrait of the inventor
context_page_description: This is a list of people who were born in/raised in, lived in, or have significant relations with the American state of Massachusetts. It includes both notable people born in the Commonwealth, and other notable people who are from the Commonwealth. People from Massachusetts are called "Massachusettsans" or "Bay Staters" after the Commonwealth's nickname.
context_section_description: Cyrus Alger – metallurgist, arms manufacturer and inventor
  Ethan Allen – co-inventor of the single-action revolver
  Johnny Appleseed – pioneer nurseryman
  Jerome Apt – astronaut
  Nima Arkani-Hamed – theoretical physicist
  Elliot Aronson – psychologist
  Charlotte Barnum – mathematician
  Clara Barton – nurse, founder of the American Red Cross
  Florence Bascom – Geologist, first woman to graduate with a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins, started geology department at Bryn Mawr
  Alexander Graham Bell – inventor
  Sir Tim Berners-Lee – World Wide Web; MIT professor
  Ephraim Wales Bull – cultivator of the Concord grape
  Luther Burbank – horticulturist
  William Burt – inventor, surveyor, and millwright
  Vannevar Bush – engineer, inventor and science administrator
  Rachel Fuller Brown – chemist
  Noam Chomsky – linguist
  Michael Cohen – first doctor to diagnose Proteus syndrome
  Morris Cohen – metallurgist
  William D. Coolidge – physicist
  Elias James Corey – chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1990
  Jeff Corwin – biologist, wildlife conservationist, and television personality
  William Healey Dall – naturalist, malacologist
  Daniel Dennett – cognitive scientist and philosopher
  Benjamin Franklin – scientist, diplomat, public official
  Buckminster Fuller – architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor
  Robert Goddard – inventor
  Ward Goodenough – anthropologist
  Charles Goodyear – inventor
  Temple Grandin – doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University
  Sylvester Graham – inventor
  Crawford Greenewalt – chemical engineer
  Frederick Hauck – NASA astronaut
  Elias Howe – inventor
  Dan Itse – chemical engineer and New Hampshire public official
  Melvin Johnson – prominent firearms designer
  Richard Karp – computer scientist, computational theorist
  Alan Kay – computer scientist
  Nathaniel S. Keith – manufacturer, chemist, inventor, and electrical engineer
  Robert Lanza – medical doctor, scientist
  Lewis Howard Latimer – inventor and draftsman
  Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, Jr. – mechanical engineer
  Henrietta Swan Leavitt – astronomer
  Gilbert N. Lewis – physical chemist, discovered covalent bonds
  Robert Lindsay – physicist, specializing in acoustics
  Richard Lindzen – atmospheric physicist
  Arthur Little – chemist and chemical engineer
  Percival Lowell – astronomer
  Elizabeth Marston – psychologist, co-creator of Wonder Woman
  William Marston – psychologist, co-creator of Wonder Woman
  John McCarthy – computer scientist, cognitive scientist
  Albert Abraham Michelson – physicist, first American to receive the Nobel Prize in science
  Maria Mitchell – first U.S. female astronomer
  Samuel Morse – painter, co-developer of Morse code
  William T.G. Morton – dentist and physician
  Richard Muther – industrial engineer
  Lloyd Ohlin – sociologist and criminologist
  Robert T. Paine – ecologist
  Charles Sanders Peirce – logician, mathematician, philosopher, and scientist
  Jacob Perkins – inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist
  Gregory Pincus – scientist, developed birth control pill
  Rufus Porter – inventor
  Cornelius Rhoads – pathologist and oncologist
  Albert Sacco – chemical engineer and payload specialist for NASA
  John Henry Schwarz – theoretical physicist
  Samuel Scudder – entomologist and palaeontologist
  Andrew Strominger – theoretical physicist
  Benjamin Thompson – physicist and inventor
  Edward Thorndike – psychologist
  Janice E. Voss – engineer, NASA astronaut
  An Wang – inventor, computer engineer, co-founder of Wang Laboratories
  Worcester Warner – mechanical engineer, astronomer
  Samuel Wellman – inventor of the crucible steel furnace
  David Ames Wells – engineer, textbook author, economist
  Daniel Wesson – firearms designer
  Charles Abiathar White – geologist, paleontologist
  Frank C. Whitmore – chemist
  Eli Whitney – inventor
  Kenneth G. Wilson – theoretical physicist
  John Winthrop – mathematician, physicist, astronomer
  Robert Wood – physicist, inventor
  Sewall Wright – geneticist
caption: Eli Whitney
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